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September 28, 2010

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Tough timing for John Lott, known for his book "More Guns, Less Crime," to speak at the University of Texas, Austin's chapter of Students for Freedom today: The school is on lockdown after a gunman shot up a campus library (reportedly injuring nobody), then killed himself.

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Tough reality for Ben Smith, and the rest of those who want to take away our 2nd Amendment rights: The University of Texas already has a "gun control" ban, and has had one for years (see p. 26 of their student organization handbook).
Didn't exactly work, did it, guys????

Try again Ben is right. Totally ignored by Journolister Ben and the rest of the Democratic Party--controlled Main Stream Media is the USAG Eric Holder's Justice Dept. cover up of the outing of his and Obama's racist New Black Panthers hate crime case. This is were 2 black thugs dressed in Militia uniforms and carrying nightsticks were conviced (they didn't show up for the trial) of voter intimidation and making racist threats at a Philly voting site against white people, and Holder dropped the case, only because his and Obama's Justice Department ONLY tries these kind of cases when white people are the perps and blacks are the victims. The cover up by Holder and Obama is clearly a racist hate crime and should warrant a Special Prosecutor, but because the Main Stream Media and Journolisters like Ben here are in the hip pocket of the Democrats and just adore Obama, this case gets burried while they get all upset over a trivial case like some nut shooting up a library hurting no one. Since all lawabiding American people have the right to own guns, and it's the Republicans who want to keep it that way, while the Democrats want to make the 2nd Amendment null and void, Ben here is trying to promote this issue to help the Democrats in the midterms with the liberal ahole Obamatrons.

Hey Ben, ever been a crime victim? I was on three separate occasions on one of which I narrowly escaped death at the hands of a recently released armed robber (thank you St. Mario Cuomo). So have other members of my family including one who was murdered. None of us was armed at the time.
The last time someone attempted to assault me (a road rager who couldn't be reasoned with or mollified) he was dissuaded by my legally carried revolver. Yes Ben, I now possess a CCW permit and you can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

Yeah if the young right has their way every campus will be gun friendly, they already sued utah and colorado state. that is just what we need drunken college students armed to the teeth. I love the NRA

Shall issue laws -
Lott examines the effects of shall issue laws on violent crime across the United States.
His conclusion is that shall issue laws, which allow citizens to carry concealed weapons, steadily decrease violent crime. He explains that this result makes sense because criminals are deterred by the risk of attacking an armed victim. As more citizens arm themselves, the danger to criminals increases.

Question. If you were a armed burglar looking at two mansions that look empty (but you're not sure), at night, and you wanted to rob one of them, which one would you pick if you knew that mansion A's owner was a NRA-member and gun owner, or mansion B that you knew was owned by a liberal anti-gun advocate?

sig, shut the f-ck up. I was at UT today, and it hardly seemed trivial to me. The man was running down the street with an AK-47, shooting at random. Moreover, due to conflicting eyewitness accounts, there may be a second suspect. Had the confirmed suspect decided to actually aim at people and had the APD not reacted so efficiently, it could have ended up much worse.

Posted By: sig, shut the f-ck up. I was at UT today, and it hardly seemed trivial to me. The man was running | September 28, 2010 at 03:18 PM

Posted By: Tom | September 28, 2010 at 03:54 PM... If there are already gun laws in place, and they are broken, like in this particular case, how do you protect yourself? What is your alternative? Getting shot in the head with zero way of defending yourself?

So you think there would be less shootings if students could have firearms on campus? I don't think that is a plausible argument. Parents hesitate to send their children to college with a car or a credit card because they make poor decisions. If you want to arm trained security personnel fine, but not 20 year old kids.

In this case, this guy was 19 and had an AK-47. That's not even legal to begin with. I just feel bad that students can't defend themselves. I don't worry about legal gun owners - I worry more about people like this guy.

Posted By: In this case, this guy was 19 and had an AK-47. That's not even legal to begin with. I just feel bad | September 28, 2010 at 04:58 PM

When Hitler and the Nazi's first got political power in Germany, the very first thing that they did was to take away all privatly held guns. Reason? Without guns the German citizens couldn't fight back against the Nazi and Hitlers power-grab. Obama and the Democrats are just like Hitler and the Nazi's. Disarm the American people and you got them by the balls.